“The same thing that was a sin 2,000 years ago is a sin today. The thing that was right 2,000 years ago is right today.” –Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown. Brown has made headlines with his fierce opposition to gay rights, righteously citing the Bible as the source of his views. As he wrote [...]
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Ron Brown writes letter to fans, won’t publicly testify against gay protection
Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown will not testify when the Lincoln City Council holds its hearing on an ordinance to ban anti-LGBT discrimination. For this one moment, Brown has caved to pressure from fair-minded people who believe someone in his position should not be vocally advocating for discrimination. Still, he says he is just [...]
More anti-gay discrimination coming soon from Ron Brown as Lincoln considers LGBT protection
In March, Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown drove 60 miles to another city to pressure their city council against protecting gay people from discrimination in the workplace. He failed. Now his own city of Lincoln is considering a similar ordinance that would make it illegal to fire someone from being gay. Batten down the [...]
Nebraska coach Ron Brown would be “honored” if he was fired for his opposition to gays
Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown said he’ll keep speaking out against gays, even if it costs him his job, but his bosses support him. Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press that “to be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn’t win enough [...]
Colorado State freshmen claim football players attacked them amid homophobic slurs
Three Colorado State freshman claim they were brutally attacked by three Colorado State football players amid a bevy of homophobic slurs. The suspects in the case seem to be Colorado State football players Mike Orakpo, Nordly Capi and Colton Paulhus. According to 9News, the school has not linked the three athletes to the beatings, though [...]
Opinion: University of Nebraska gives Ron Brown license to attack LGBT athletes
Two weeks after calling for the firing of anti-gay Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown, many voices have joined the chorus. Athlete Ally’s change.org petition has received over 1,000 signatures from people concerned with the intolerant direction Brown is leading the Cornhuskers; An openly gay member of the Lincoln Board of Education has called for his [...]
Lincoln Education Board member Barbara Baier wants Ron Brown removed
This letter was written by openly gay Lincoln Board of Education member Barbara Baier. She copied Outsports on the letter. She paints a sad, dire state of affairs for LGBT athletes at the University of Nebraska, which corroborates what I have heard from others there. You can support Ron Brown’s removal by signing this change.org [...]
Gallery: NFL pro day workouts
The NFL Draft will be held April 26-28 and in the past month, colleges everywhere held their pro days. These events give a chance for sure-fire draft picks and those hoping to be selected to show NFL scouts and coaches what they’ve got. This year, there is little doubt that the top two picks will [...]
Brian Sims running for State Representative in Pennsylvania, primary on April 24
Brian Sims, the former college football captain who came out publicly on Outsports in 2009, is running for State Representative in Pennsylvania’s District 182. That district encompasses the city’s “Gayborhood.” If elected, he would be the first out LGBT legislator in Pennsylvania history. With the Democratic primary on April 24, he’s knee-deep in his final push [...]
Nebraska: Fire assistant football coach Ron Brown
You can support the firing of Ron Brown by signing this Athlete Ally Change.org petition. For over 20 years, University of Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown has used his position in the university to preach his discriminatory anti-gay brand of Christianity. His latest crusade to fight for discrimination against the LGBT community finally warrants his [...]
Gay Nebraska fan calls anti-gay football coach ‘religious bully’
We have been writing about Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown and his testimony against an anti-discrimination ordinance in Omaha that would protect LGBT people. Brown continued his homophobic assault even when the city council upheld the ordinance on a 4-3 vote. The Omaha Herald ran a letter against Brown’s actions written by John F. [...]
Omaha City Council rejects Ron Brown’s bigotry, protects gays from discrimination
Despite attempts by Nebraska Cornhuskers assistant football coach Ron Brown to keep anti-LGBT discrimination legal in Omaha, the city council there has voted, 4-3, to protect everyone in the LGBT community from discrimination. According to the Omaha World-Herald, Brown stuck to his position that gay people should be discriminated against: “The Lord is on the [...]
God-squadder Mo Isom trying to be Les Miles’ new female placekicker for LSU
In 2003, Katie Hnida kicked two PATs for the University of New Mexico, becoming the first female player to score in a Div. 1 college football game. Nine years later, LSU women’s soccer goalie Mo Isom is trying to become the second (watch her kick a goal-to-goal score below). In tryouts for the team last [...]
University of Nebraska distances itself from coach Ron Brown’s anti-gay comments
Earlier this week, Nebraska running backs coach Ron Brown testified before the Omaha City Council that the Bible should be law. The testimony was in regards to the City Council’s consideration of a bill that would outlaw discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. Aksarbent.com has gotten hold of a letter from Nebraska athletic [...]
Ron Brown, Nebraska football coach, testifies homosexuality is sin, wants God to dictate law
Nebraska running backs coach Ron Brown testified before the Omaha City Council against a bill that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination (video below). Brown, a devout Christian, bases his opposition exclusively on the Bible and says the Bible should be the law of the land. Some of the highlights from [...]
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer apologizes to gay group for choice of shirt color
Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer has apologized to the Ohio State LGBT alumni group, Scarlet and Gay, for use of shirts whose color was perceived as offensive to gays. The shirts, given to players who loafed during conditioning drills, were called “lavender” by strength coach Mickey Marotti and that sparked a controversy. Ohio [...]
Ohio State football coach: ‘Loafing’ shirts have nothing to do with sexual orientation
Earlier this week we ran an item about new Ohio State football strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti’s use of a colored shirt as a badge of shame for players who loafed. Marotti, in a press conference with reporters, twice used the word “lavender” to describe them, as did at least one player. This caused [...]
Former TCU football player Vince Pryor honored for courage, proposes to partner
Vince Pryor, who was an out football player on his TCU team in 1994, was honored by an Austin, Texas-based gay rights group for showing “an extraordinary amount of courage to come out as a gay athlete.” Pryor was honored at a lunch of the Atticus Circle and then posted this wonderful news on his [...]
Football Player Butt takes YouTube by storm
A faceless torso claiming to be a college football player is making the rounds on YouTube with a bunch of videos of him shaking his butt to various R&B hits. That’s it. Nothing more. Just video after video of him shaking his money-maker. It falls into our “Hot” and “Humor” categories at the same time. [...]
Scarlet letter: Ohio State football players who loaf forced to wear lavender shirts
Ohio State football players who loaf through winter conditioning drills will be forced to wear lavender shirts “in the weight room, at the training table or in the classroom” as a badge of shame. It’s part of a motivation strategy by Buckeye football’s new director of performance, Mickey Marotti, hired by new coach Urban Meyer. [...]